I just saw a documentary on scopolamine which opened with “you’ve probably never heard of this drug”
oh wow you little smug shitface you’re so educated!
It started with hipster shit, and is now invading the English language in general. In articles and real life everyone is showing their smug superiority, “oh you’ve probably never had Indian food”
Fuck you smug bullshit!
Did they mention Crippen?
Actually I hated the saying “youve probably never heard of it” way before you hated it. I don’t really hate it anymore except to be ironic. But back in the day, like around 2011, it was pretty hardcore to hate it. Now it’s gone mainstream though. But I did before it was.
Funny, I just saw a documentary on scopolamine also. (Must be a different one, because it did not open with “you’ve probably never heard of this drug”) But anyways, I think you’re overreacting. There’s a difference between a hipster saying “Yeah my favorite band is X, you’ve probably never heard of them” (insinuating that they have a very specific unique taste in music superior to your own) and a documentary talking about a subject that most likely most people truly have never heard of. (Unless you think said documentary is making a personal jab at your knowledge of chemistry). I don’t think it’s smug to acknowledge how rare something is, especially in a non personal broadcast documentary.
Cool story. There’s this thing called subtlety though - you’ve probably never heard of it.
I see what you did there.
The documentary from Vice.com? I saw that too. From what I can gather the documentary presents a load of bullshit about the drug’s effects.
I used to use irony. Back when it meant something. But nowadays everyone’s being ironic. So all of us cool people have started using hyperbole instead and it’s like the greatest thing in the entire universe.
Moved MPSIMS --> the Pit. (You’ve probably never heard of it.)
Well, now that we’re in the Pit, I’m going to be So Bitchin’ Post-Meta-Ironic that I’ll be in my room, listening to NSync and playing Hungry Hungry Hippos because I actually like it.
(Actually, the Real Life version of me is in a hipster coffee joint right now, with my laptop and a copy of The Hardy Boys that I’m enjoying non-post-ironically)
Where are you from son?
Madison City, Missouri sir!
Never heard of it.
So a hipster goes to a doctor for his test results. The doctor tells him “You’ve got a very rare disease. You’ve probably never heard of it.”
How can anyone not have heard of scopolamine? It’s been a plot device on every mystery show on TV for the past year. The penultimate episode of *Castle *highlighted as The Zombie Drug.
Q: How many hipsters does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: It’s a really obscure number; you’ve probably never heard of it.
Hipster Cat has heard of scopolamine.
How did the hipster burn his mouth?
he was eating pizza before it was cool.
ETA: I actually used to go over to friend’s apartment and dink beer and play HUngry Hungry Hippos. Way before it was cool, assuming it is or ever was.
I only watched the first season of Castle. I stopped watching when it sold out by getting renewed.
I haven’t come across that particular obnoxious phrase, but it fits in nicely with my hatred of “it’s a __________ thing, you wouldn’t understand”.
We need a fist-shaking :mad: smiley dude, it would go well here.
Oh, man, hyperbole just made its way to NY? That’s something else…I remember back in 2008 when it seemed like the new thing. Around here, we go for ironic hyperbole these days, and it’s the coolest thing since Hanson.
These people must be related to those (also annoying) people who like to use fake secret agent talk - “I’d tell you, but then I’d have to kill you”… “don’t call us, we’ll call you’”, etc, etc…
